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To the glory of her sex : women's roles in the composition of medieval texts / Joan M. Ferrante.

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by Ferrante, Joan M., 1936- author.
Call Number 809.892870902 20
Publication Date 1997
Summary To the Glory of Her Sex presents an account of medieval women's activities as correspondents, readers, writers, and literary patrons from antiquity through the fourteenth century. The writings explored here represent a cross-section of virtually every field in historical and literary studies, including Latin literature, romance literature in French, political and religious correspondence, theological and moral treatises written for women, and histories and biographies commissioned by or addressed to women. Reading in the public and private correspondence of medieval women, for example, Ferrante discovered to what degree their involvement in affairs of the world and their role in the work of prominent men have been underestimated. Among the major figures in this panorama are Elisabeth Schonau, Hildegard of Bingen, Hrotsvit, Marie de France, and Christine de Pizan.
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Crime and punishment in the Middle Ages and early modern age [electronic resource] : mental-historical investigations of basic human problems and social responses / edited by Albrecht Classen and Connie Scarborough.

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by Classen, Albrecht.
Call Number 809.933556 23
Publication Date 2012
Summary Norms, rules, and laws have determined the interaction of people throughout time, and yet transgressions have always occurred. Crime and subsequent punishments are fundamental issues identifying every society. The articles in this volume study medieval laws and documents reflecting on vices, crimes, and wrongdoings and thus give a profound analysis of the premodern world in its development in social, economic, legal, moral, and ethical terms.
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The making of memory in the Middle Ages [electronic resource] / edited by Lucie Doležalová.

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by Doležalová, Lucie.
Call Number 909.07 22
Publication Date 2010
Summary Memory in the Middle Ages has received particular attention in recent decades; yet; the topic remains difficult to grasp and the research on it rather fragmented. This book gathers particular case studies on memory in different parts of medieval Europe and in a variety of fields including literatures, languages, manuscript studies, history, history of ideas, philosophy, social history and art history. The studies address, on the one hand, memory as means of storing and recuperating knowledge (arts of memory and memory aids), and, on the other hand, memory as remembering and constructing the pa.
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